tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post4706049306602349089..comments2024-03-18T20:41:56.222-04:00Comments on Kinderkuchen for the FBI: Die Meistersinger.Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-50246406850689258062012-08-26T18:05:54.485-04:002012-08-26T18:05:54.485-04:00Modern life is rather a depressing thing. Everyth...Modern life is rather a depressing thing. Everything is sex, violence and money, things this production had in abundance. Our emotions respond in the old way, but the pictures just make it feel unsuitable.<br /><br />A review said people laughed. I didn't. I laughed at Giolio Cesare. Yes. I see. One wants the pictures to fit our emotions.<br /><br />But Wagner is full of thought and ideas. Just not these.Dr.Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-58068045271275211232012-08-26T17:54:27.449-04:002012-08-26T17:54:27.449-04:00When did the directors and impresarios decide that...When did the directors and impresarios decide that an opera was a random collection of notes, independent of its dramatic and visual elements — a mere musical shell, to be filled up with and bent out of shape by whatever modern hang-ups seem most likely to catch the public off guard? When did wild controversy, booing and academic apologias in the press replace straightforward storytelling as signs of theatrical prowess? When did "making people think" become the top priority in an art form once clearly intended to make them feel?<br /><br />Opera is an art form intended principally to make audiences feel, not think. That, in fact, is what opera — is what music — is all about. Prior to our modern age, there's not a composer of opera (or of music generally, for that matter) who ever lived who thought otherwise. Whence, then, this perverse, noxious, and ass-backwards impulse to make opera audiences think first, feel after? <br /><br />Regietheater is so depressing!<br /><br />It really is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com